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Stop playing games with online security, Signal president warns EU lawmakers (techcrunch.com)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Follow-up to last week's story:

https://lemmy.ml/post/16672524

EDIT1: Politicians expect to be be exempt.

EDIT2: Good news: Vote has been postponed due to disagreements.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

technically it doesn't break e2ee

** for some unorthodox definition of e2ee

If the "endpoints" are defined as being somewhere outside the end users' control, because for example the client software they have is designed to betray their secrets, then the system is no longer end-to-end encrypted in the way that both cryptographers and normal people would usually understand the concept.